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38 produkter
Sophie's Choice
Häftad, 2004
149 kr
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In post-war Brooklyn, three lives are drawn together by love, guilt and an unbearable secret. In the summer of 1947, Stingo, an inexperienced twenty-two-year-old Southerner, arrives at a boarding house in a leafy Brooklyn suburb. There he meets Nathan, a fiery Jewish intellectual, and Sophie, a …
Darkness Visible
Häftad, 2001
119 kr
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This is a story of depression a condition that reduced William Styron from a person enjoying life and success as an acclaimed writer, to a man engulfed and menaced by mental anguish. With profound insight and remarkable candor, Styron tracks the progress of his madness, from the smothering misery …
This Quiet Dust
Häftad, 2012
198 kr
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In This Quiet Dust, the first book of non-fiction by the Pulitzer Prize-wining author of Lie Down in Darkness and Sophie's Choice, William Styron addresses great moral issues with passion and precision. His writing is at once meditative and engaged, personal and erudite, whether he is covering the …
Lie Down In Darkness
Häftad, 2000
198 kr
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In this novel, the South looms dark and ominous in the background with its Biblical rhetoric, its conflict between a tradition of religious fundamentalism and modern scepticism, racial contrasts and the industrialisation of a rural society. But more than a novel of time and place, it is the story …
Confessions of Nat Turner
Häftad, 2004
234 kr
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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEIn 1831 Nat Turner awaits death in a Virginia jail cell. He is a slave, a preacher, and the leader of the only effective slave revolt in the history of 'that peculiar institution'. William Styron's ambitious and stunningly accomplished novel is Turner's confession, made …
Set This House On Fire
Häftad, 2001
227 kr
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The day after Peter Leverett met his old friend Mason Flagg in Italy, Mason was found dead. The hours leading up to his death were a nightmare for Peter - both in their violence and in their maddening unreality.The blaze of events which followed was, Peter soon realised, ignited by a conflict …
Selected Letters of William Styron
Av William Styron, R. Blakeslee Gilpin m. fl.
E-bok, 2012
192 kr
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In 1950, at the age of twenty-four, William Clark Styron, Jr., wrote to his mentor, Professor William Blackburn of Duke University. The young writer was struggling with his first novel, Lie Down in Darkness, and he was nervous about whether his “strain and toil” would amount to anything. “When I …
Sophie's Choice (National Book Award Winner)
A Novel
Häftad, 1900
289 kr
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#1 New York Times bestseller • National Book Award winner • A modern classic of love and survival, Sophie’s Choice follows a young writer drawn into the orbit of a Holocaust survivor and her brilliant, unstable lover in postwar Brooklyn, and into the horrors of her complicated past in Nazi-occupied …
My Generation
Collected Nonfiction
Av William Styron, III James L. W. West
E-bok, 2015
191 kr
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A vital, illuminating collection of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner’s elegant, passionately engaged nonfiction My Generation is the definitive gathering of William Styron’s nonfiction, exposing the core of this greatly gifted, highly convivial, and profoundly serious artist from …
Conversations with William Styron
Av William Styron, L. West III
Häftad, 1985
383 kr
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This is a selection of interviews with William Styron published during the period 1951-1984, from the months just following publication of Lie Down in Darkness, his first novel, to the period after publication of Sophie's Choice. Some twenty-five interviews are reprinted here, including six that …
Great American Authors Read from Their Works
Complete Collection
Av James Jones, William Styron m. fl.
Ljudbok, 2019
240 kr
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These recordings of twentieth-century American authors interpreting their own works were highly praised when first released in the 1960s. Today the cultural and historical value of these recordings makes them an essential part of our literary heritage. In this collection, James Baldwin reads from …
William Styron Reading from Lie Down in Darkness
From Great American Authors Read from Their Works, Volume 1
Ljudbok, 2019
17 kr
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Lie Down in Darkness traces the tragic fate of a Southern family with acute sensitivity, in a style that mirrors the inner lives of its four major characters. The parents are estranged, with each favoring one of their two daughters. The father dotes on Peyton, the family beauty, while the mother is …
Suicide Run
E-bok, 2010
100 kr
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The five personal and intensely powerful tales that make up this collection draw upon William Styron's real-life experiences in the US Marine Corps, and give us an insight into the early life of one of America's greatest modern writers. The stories are set in the gruelling camps and sweltering …
In the Clap Shack
A Play
E-bok, 2010
169 kr
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A military hospital is the setting for this darkly humorous play by the #1 New York Times –bestselling author of Darkness Visible and Sophie’s Choice . In the summer of 1943, a young Marine named Wally Magruder arrives at a Navy hospital in the American South, stricken with what doctors diagnose as …
Collected Novels
Lie Down in Darkness, Set This House on Fire, The Confessions of Nat Turner, and Sophie''s Choice
E-bok, 2013
417 kr
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Four novels—including a Pulitzer Prize winner and a National Book Award winner—by the #1 New York Times –bestselling master. Lie Down in Darkness is William Styron’s stunning debut: a classic portrait of one Southern family’s tragic spiral into destruction. Set This House on Fire is a story of evil …
Havanas in Camelot
Personal Essays
E-bok, 2008
190 kr
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After the great success in 1990 of Darkness Visible , his memoir of depression and recovery, William Styron wrote more frequently in an introspective, autobiographical mode. Havanas in Camelot brings together fourteen of his personal essays, including a reminiscence of his brief friendship with …
Depression
Vintage Minis
Häftad, 2017
78 kr
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How does a writer compose a suicide note? This was not a question that the prize-winning novelist William Styron had ever contemplated before. In this true account of his depression, Styron describes an illness that reduced him from a successful writer to a man arranging his own destruction. He …
Lie Down in Darkness
E-bok, 2010
246 kr
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The National Book Award–winning and #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Sophie''s Choice made his debut with this novel of a Southern family''s downfall.A finalist for the National Book Award, Lie Down in Darkness centers on the Loftis family—Milton and Helen and their daughters, Peyton and …
Long March
E-bok, 2010
170 kr
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From the National Book Award–winning author of Sophie''s Choice a novel about two marines who rebel during a punishing long march in the southern heat.In the shadow of the Korean War, a series of misfired mortar shells kill six men in a marine camp during a training exercise, prompting the …
Confessions of Nat Turner
A Novel
E-bok, 2010
246 kr
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The “magnificent” Pulitzer Prize–winning and #1 New York Times –bestselling novel about the preacher who led America’s bloodiest slave revolt ( The New York Times ). The Confessions of Nat Turner is William Styron’s complex and richly drawn imagining of Nat Turner, the leader of the 1831 slave …
Set This House on Fire
E-bok, 2010
181 kr
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"One of the finest novels of our times," a New York Times bestseller about a murder in Italy from the National Book Award–winning author of Sophie''s Choice (San Francisco Chronicle).Shortly after World War II, in the village of Sambuco, Italy, two American men—Peter Leverett and Cass …
